LG Lands Another Netbook, the Xnote Mini

Word on the street (and by street we mean the vast Internet) is that, on Thursday, LG unveiled a new portable computer system that has been specifically designed to compete with all those other netbooks on the market. The new model comes to extend the company's offer of netbooks with a system that sports a 10-inch form factor, and that is claimed to be the lightest ever made by the Korean company.

 

Simply dubbed Xnote Mini, LG's new netbook is equipped with a 10-inch display with a built-in 1.3-mega pixel web camera. It is also featured with a 160 GB hard drive to provide its users with just enough storage space for a large number of media files or personal data. Furthermore, as with the 8.9-inch X110, LG's latest netbook is also powered by Intel's highly successful Atom processor, which will probably deliver a core speed of 1.6GHz.

 

One of the main features of LG's Xnote Mini is that it comes with a weight of just 1.19kg, according to the official statement of the company. As per the same source, the sleek design it comes with was adopted with female users in mind. In addition, LG has also equipped its latest netbook with a decently sized keyboard that will enable comfortable typing, despite the system's small size.

 

Unfortunately, there are no details available on pricing and on when, or if, this model is going to be released on a worldwide scale. But, even so, it now seems we have yet another 10-inch netbook that will try to compete with all the other systems from MSI, ASUS, Lenovo or even Sylvania.

 

The introduction of LG's new portable system comes as no surprise, especially since these netbooks have become, in some regards, more popular than regular, normal-sized, fully-fledged notebooks. In the end, it all comes down to design, as most manufacturers have jumped on the Intel Atom bandwagon, thus making all netbooks look rather similar in terms of technical specifications.